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I got back late last night with a massive cold that is wrecking havoc on my body.  The last thing I wanted was to get out of bed today but had to pick up a friend from the airport.  He’s visiting from London and staying with me for a few nights.  On top of that, [...]

Now that several days have passed, as well as a nice weekend, I have accepted the state of my database and want to just move forward.  I will be getting a wireless scanner (something that I should have had in the first place) which will make the inventory go faster.  Thanks for all the good [...]

As usual I’ve got lots of ideas, thoughts, complaints, and confusions rattling around in my brain trying for some sort of cohesion.  I want to say so much, from big things like what is going on in my heart to stupid things like how I love watching The Biggest Loser (and yay for Hulu since [...]

Yesterday I saw an amazing musical performance by an ensemble called Alash.  They are from the Tuva Republic, which politically is part of Russia but geographically is in the heart of Asia, sitting right on top of Mongolia.  The Tuvans are related to Mongolians but are a Turkic people.  Their music uses traditional Tuvan instruments [...]

At 11:30 this morning I was writing about how frustrated I was that on this momentous day in 2009 my school was unable to show the inauguration.  Technology is so advanced that we’re probably one step away from embedding video monitors in our forearms but the classrooms in my school don’t have working televisions.  I [...]

I finally finished reading Twilight (yeah, yeah, as in the book that came out three years ago and has been read by everyone and their mama).  I wanted to write about it but I’m so zonked from lack of sleep that it will have to wait.  Instead, I ask - Why do people think they [...]